The Music Box.
Entries about the music I like.
Basement – Colourmeinkindness
I don’t believe I’m in a position to share any facts about the band Basement except that, in the 2010s, they played lightly distorted mildly noisy alternative rock. And that in 2012, they recorded an album called Colourmeinkindness, which has a sound that serves as a great backing track for the part of one’s life that’s punctuated by deeply introspective walks in the blistering heat.
Radiohead – The Bends
You’re in mainland Europe – somewhere in the continent’s northwest. Alone in an English pub run by the English, frequented by the English. Most brownfolk with a sense of history would likely find much of the imagery here discomforting, but most would overlook it. The pub’s been playing the Bends, all the way from Planet Telex on; this is a strange sort of place.
Nothing – Tired of Tomorrow
Sitting in the world’s most absurd café after completing the world’s most meandering walk, your phone suggests you listen to Nothing’s Famine Asylum off of their 2020 album, The Great Dismal. You’re reminded of an earlier album by the same band as a beskirted post-Soviet NFT scamster asks a vaguely Mediterranean dad-bodied man wearing a deep blue TOMMY JEANS tee to take a photo.
Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary
Inch by inch, then mile by mile, they corrode the core of you. Eating away at what some say is a soul while others disagree; who’s to say whose story adds up? Your dreams are set in concrete and glass, towering all around you. You – dwarfed, hunched over, lurking in the shadows – become one with them. All in or nothing, depending on which side of the bed you last graced.
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
From my 16th birthday to my 18th, I listened to Geek U.S.A. about thrice as often as my second most frequently heard song (I think it was either the Beatles’ A Day In The Life or the Cure’s A Forest). I’d scroll down to number fifty-something (54, I think?) on a playlist named ‘the greatest guitar solos of all time – hq’ and there it’d be: 'Smashing Pumpkins – Geek U.S.A.'
Courtney Barnett — Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit
As Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit winds down, you walk through them in a daze. As you take another round before going back home, you listen to the album again — that rare looped album — and you think, man, I don’t think I’m ever going to forget the first time I heard this album. Like Velvet Underground & Nico alone at night in your room, or Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat one languid afternoon.